Table 1.

Sociodemographic characteristics of responders of the Safety Attitudes Questionnaire

	Time of participation
	First survey N=358		Second survey N=325		First and second survey N=238
	N	Per cent	N	Per cent	N	Per cent
Characteristics
Profession
Doctors	43	12	36	11	23	10
Nurses	147	41	132	41	95	40
Nursing assistants*	74	21	67	21	49	21
Therapists†	56	16	51	16	41	17
Others‡	38	11	39	12	30	13
Gender
Females	290	81	267	82	192	81
Males	68	19	58	18	46	19
Organisational role
Clinical leaders	16	5	16	5	15	6
Frontline clinicians	342	95	309	95	223	94
Age groups (year)§
<36	103	29	96	29
≥36 to <56	203	57	181	56
56 or older	52	15	48	15
Work experience (year)§
<3	91	25	86	26
3 or more	267	75	239	74
Organisational affiliation§
Inpatient unit	239	67	203	63
Outpatient unit	31	31	111	34
No specific unit/other	8	2	11	3

*Nurse assistants or the like, and pedagogues.

†Psychologists, physiotherapists, occupational therapists, music therapists.

‡Social workers and secretaries.

§Subject to change between the two surveys, thus not reported for the participants taking part at both survey times.